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Cyclops low-power wireless imagers in James Reserve Nestboxes. (Please allow time for images to load). For more information on Cyclops, view the Cyclops project page
CENS is accepting applications for the CENS High School Scholars Program! Deadline April 21, 2008
"We envision a world where researchers, students, industry and goverment routinely use distributed sensor and actuator networks to understand and control both natural and artificial systems."
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CENS, a NSF Science & Technology Center, is developing Embedded Networked Sensing Systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and social applications. Like the Internet, these large-scale, distributed, systems, composed of smart sensors and actuators embedded in the physical world, will eventually infuse the entire world, but at a physical level instead of virtual. Read more:
National Science Foundation
Cooperative Agreement #CCR-0120778
Title: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
PI Names: Deborah L. Estrin, Michael Hamilton, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Gaurav Sukhatme
Effective Date: August 1, 2002 Expiration Date: July 31, 2012

CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Lama Nachman, Intel
CENS Intel Scholars Event: Technical Seminar and Poster Symposium
May 16, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: CENS Main Conference Room and Courtyard (BH 3551)
RSVP
May 9, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Boelter Hall 4760
May 30, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
July 24 - 26, 2008
Location: UCLA Boelter Hall
Description: Workshop on teaching computer science principles to students in a fun and relevant way. Read More
May 2, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Boelter Hall 4760
April 25, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: 4760 Boelter Hall
April 18, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Boelter Hall 4760
April 11, 2008, 1:00 PM -- April 8, 2008, 2:00 PM
Location: Boelter Hall 4760
April 4, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Boelter Hall 4760
March 7, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: 4760 Boelter Hall, UCLA
24-Mar-08
UCLA researchers are setting up a wireless data collection, dissemination and analysis system in Costa Rica's La Selva rainforest Read More
13-Mar-08
CENS student Allen Husker receives an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation: Tomography of the subducting Cocos plate in central Mexico: Images of a truncated slab.
07-Feb-08
CENS Director Deborah Estrin and graduate student Teresa Ko presented CENS research at the NSF FY 2009 Budget Open House. Read More
12-Dec-07
CENS Faculty Christine Borgman has authored a new book in which she "explores the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infrastructure that we should be building for scholarly research in the twenty-first century." Read More
11-Dec-07
CENS Faculty Tom Harmon is leading research using wireless sensors to measure the effects that manure produced by California's dairy industry has on our state's groundwater supply. Read More
28-Nov-07
Just running an elevator up and down is enough to determine the "structural health" of a building, a new study reveals. Read More
15-Nov-07
CENS Faculty Eddie Kohler (Computer Science) has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), one of 20 such awards made by the National Science Foundation. Read More
14-Nov-07
CENS graduate student researcher Amarjeet Singh has been awarded the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Master of Science Student Award, while undergraduate researcher Andre Encarnacao received the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award. Both awards were announced at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science 2007 Awards Dinner. Congratulations to both students on these prestigious awards. For the full list of student awards, please visit the 2007 Awards Dinner page: Read More